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The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray
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shall come out without a COURT CIRCULAR--were it the MORNING HERALD
itself. When I read that trash, I rise in my wrath; I feel myself
disloyal, a regicide, a member of the Calf's Head Club. The only COURT
CIRCULAR story which ever pleased me, was that of the King of Spain,
who in great part was roasted, because there was not time for the Prime
Minister to command the Lord Chamberlain to desire the Grand Gold Stick
to order the first page in waiting to bid the chief of the flunkeys to
request the House-maid of Honour to bring up a pail of water to put his
Majesty out.

I am like the Pasha of three tails, to whom the Sultan sends HIS COURT
CIRCULAR, the bowstring.

It CHOKES me. May its usage be abolished for ever.



CHAPTER V--WHAT SNOBS ADMIRE

Now let us consider how difficult it is even for great men to escape
from being Snobs. It is very well for the reader, whose fine feelings
are disgusted by the assertion that Kings, Princes, Lords, are Snobs, to
say 'You are confessedly a Snob yourself. In professing to depict Snobs,
it is only your own ugly mug which you are copying with a Narcissus-like
conceit and fatuity.' But I shall pardon this explosion of ill-temper
on the part of my constant reader, reflecting upon the misfortune of his
birth and country. It is impossible for ANY Briton, perhaps, not to be a
Snob in some degree. If people can be convinced of this fact, an immense
point is gained, surely. If I have pointed out the disease, let us hope
that other scientific characters may discover the remedy.
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